Despite escalating disaster losses and predicted increases in weather-related catastrophes, takeup of protective …

We provide the planner's solution to a model where households learn from exogenous natural disaster arrivals about … since disaster leads to pessimistic arrival-rate beliefs and taxes or mandates to fund mitigation, which reduce consumption …

earthquake protection in Quebec and British Columbia is influenced by the default option and the structure of the insurance plan …. Homeowners in both provinces were given the opportunity to purchase protection against earthquake losses when presented with one … pool rather than the current private insurance plan increases the likelihood of purchasing earthquake protection by 151 …

The Messina-Reggio Calabria Earthquake (1908) was the deadliest earthquake and arguably the most devastating natural … disaster in modern European history. It occurred when overseas mass emigration from southern Italy was at its peak and … international borders were open, making emigration a widespread phenomenon and a readily available option for disaster relief. We …

quality of aid delivered and social agendas pursued across neighboring villages in a set disaster context. We model the …

COVID-19 has demonstrated the challenges that policymakers, insurers, businesses, and employees face when disaster …

impact of COVID-19. A costly disaster series is constructed over the sample 1980:1-2020:04 and the dynamic impact of a … disaster shock on economic activity and on uncertainty is studied using a VAR. While past natural disasters are local in nature … of large disaster shocks. Even in a fairly conservative case where COVID-19 is a 5-month shock with its magnitude …